Better Related Posts Widget

Better Related Posts Widget

This plugin provides an advanced widget that allows you to display similar, or related, posts in any widgetized sidebar.

Related posts are selected using tags, categories, or any custom taxonomy. When searching for related posts, the widget will choose posts that share between 1-3 like terms with the currently viewed post.

Works with all custom post types!

Features:

12 Options to configure on a per-widget basis

Multiple instances of the same widget

Widget Title

Display related post titles

Option to display the post authors

Option to show post publication dates

Option to show post comment counts

Option to show post text excerpts

Option to control the length of the post excerpt

Option to show post thumbnails

Ability to control size of post thumbnails

Ability to set float of post thumbnails

Choose the number of related items to show

Select the taxonomy on which to relate posts

Widget shown only on single post pages

Related items are cached

This widget has been built with the best coding standards and should fit seamlessly into any WordPress theme.

Check out the Cleaner theme for an example of this widget (customized) in action.